Today’s 56k run quickly lead us to the river run section. It was a couple kilometers long and started by the racers plunging waist deep (on me) into a cold mountain stream. The stream got shallower and turned into the shallow rocky creek shown above. We were told we had to run up the creek, not on the side, or face strict penalties. For some, this was the toughest part of the race, for others like myself it was a highlight.